I think everything we do is fleeting, which is not a reason to give up on it all, but sometimes the sheer scope of what fleets away gives me pause.
🔗 Scripting News: ChatGPT-the-Movie … I must have missed this on Bluesky when @dave first posted it 9 months ago - and no idea how it now got resurfaced. 🤷🏻♂️
🔗 Dave Winer on Manton’s Inkwell
I could import my feeds into Inkwell, it supports OPML import, but the subs would not stay in sync. Something for Manton to worry about in a few months.
IMHO - something for the world of RSS to think about. Like mail clients - there is not even a ‘one size fits one’ - thats why I have multiple apps - but as more recently appeared importing and exporting OPML is very tedious.
And don’t even get me started on where I put new discoveries.
🔗 Don’t worry, Apple isn’t going all practical.
For years, Apple was told it absolutely had to make a netbook, and the company looked at netbooks and said, “Ew, David,”, which is weird because “Schitt’s Creek” would not come out for like six more years.
The Macalope does have a way with words.
🔗 The most brilliant move in corporate history? – Asymco
Apple didn’t miss the AI revolution. It just bet that the winners won’t be the ones who build the infrastructure. They’ll be the ones who own the customer and no one else on Earth owns the best customers.
And to keep it all balanced …
🔗 Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can’t Cash - Siegler
Because Apple so badly bungled their AI strategy in 2023 and 2024, they’re missing shipping targets for actual products in 2025 and 2026.
Seth: 🔗 Small changes to big systems
What doesn’t scale? Trust, attention and belonging.
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AI is making relatively small changes to very big systems, everywhere we look. But if those systems are built on the desires of humans, we will need to earn trust, attention and belonging more than ever before.
I’ve been hypothesizing that the next iteration of great SaaS platforms could evolve toward context-as-a-service (CaaS)
Whilst I find that we seem to be on a similar journey with thought … on this we differ
Meanwhile - one of my ‘graphics under development’ .. this one talking about ‘forgetting’ the 4Ps and start thinking 4Es - that I most recently talked about 🖇️ here.
Bottom line - we keep talking about change - radical change - and yet for some reason - our thinking is not radical - witness that we keep building ‘systems of experience’ on ‘systems of record’ infrastructure.
… and we wonder why it’s not working?
🔗 How far back in time can you understand English?
F A S C I N A T I N G
(Later - as was my misspelling until fixed)
🔗 Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
… another public service.
🔗 Nicholas Carr: What is it … | Alan Jacobs
What fills the pattern at any given instant –what we call content– is fungible and disposable. It’s not important. It’s the pattern, the form the content fits and replicates, that’s important.
“fungible and disposable” - 🖇️ been writing about this for years - eventually the term will disappear - once all the juice has been extracted.